5/19/2024 - JM_MadTown Likes this wine:

This is a really nice Sauvignon Blanc with good citrus, minerality and salinity. It is easy to enjoy and goes well with asparagus and lighter fish courses. This is a good value.

5/18/2024 - JM_MadTown Likes this wine:

Lots of rasberries and blueberries, but not too pronounced as some west coast pinots can be. Good minerality and mouthfeel as well. A really nice wine.

5/16/2024 - JM_MadTown Likes this wine:

I like how this wine has developed more complexity since my last bottle. It has a lovely nose of ripe orchard fruits. On the palate, there are lots of orchard fruits, vanilla, crème brûlée, nice minerality, and very full mouthfeel. A long finish.

5/14/2024 - JM_MadTown wrote:

This bottle provides a similar experience to my last one more than a year ago. Quite pleasant, but uninspiring. The wine has a floral scent with tart red strawberry fruit, and a little bit of spice, plus good minerality.

5/12/2024 - JM_MadTown Likes this wine:

The nose gives lots of lemon and lime scents. It has delicious citrus fruit, including lemon, lime, and grapefruit. Lots of minerality, sea salt, some chalk, flintiness, pronounced acidity. It has a lingering finish of all of these elements.

This is a very nice Sauvignon blanc from Pouilly Fumé. It has been a few years since I last tried a bottle from this producer. It is a very good value.

5/6/2024 - JM_MadTown Likes this wine:

This wine has lemon, and lemon curd, nice acidity and complexity with a medium finish.

5/4/2024 - JM_MadTown Likes this wine:

Quite enjoyable with bright cherry fruit, mellow tannins and balanced acidity.

5/2/2024 - JM_MadTown Likes this wine:

This is a little soon to drink these, but I wanted to try one to see what it was like. It does have nice dark red fruits, including plums and red currents and some chocolate notes. I do detect some fine tannins and good acidity. It is earthy and is silky on the palate. However, I think it needs a few years to come together better.

4/30/2024 - JM_MadTown Likes this wine:

This is an interesting approach to sauvignon blanc from Germany. It has good acidity and minerality, plus some citrus including lime. I sense that it is slightly off-dry.

4/29/2024 - JM_MadTown Likes this wine:

This wine has a lot of tension between its acidity, fruit, including citrus and green apple, flintiness and the minerality. I find it to be nicely complex for a village level Chablis. It has a full mouthfeel and a lingering finish. Quite nice. I agree with the comments from Guanyu.

4/28/2024 - JM_MadTown Likes this wine:

Another amazing bottle of this wine, which we enjoyed last evening. However, there is one glass left that I am enjoying while writing this review.

As before, the wine came together quite well after it was open for an hour and warmed up from cellar temperature. Lots of red fruits, a little sour cherry at first that mellowed into more luscious raspberry and cherry fruit. It seems to have a number of years of life left. A very enjoyable Burgundy!

4/25/2024 - JM_MadTown wrote:

Because I really enjoy Chateau le Puy, I decided to try this wine as it is owned and produced by the same family.

When I first tried this wine (pop n’pour), I was not impressed as it is quite light bodied and did not seem to have a lot of fruit. But now that it has been opened for an hour, I am warming up to it, a little bit.

It is light in alcohol at 12%, light bodied and has some nice red fruit, no oak, and light tannins. For the price, it is okay, but I prefer fuller bodied Bordeaux.

4/24/2024 - JM_MadTown wrote:

The wine is light bodied, round and soft, but with the acidity as you would expect in a Chablis. There is lemon and lemon zest, plus good minerality and some sea salt. However, I find the finish to be short and lacking the complexity that I would expect in a premier cru.

4/23/2024 - JM_MadTown Likes this wine:

This is an enjoyable Zinfandel with lots of black cherries, plums and cranberries. The firm acidity holds in check the sweetness of the fruit. It is certainly at its peak and probably will not improve, so I would recommend enjoying your bottles sooner rather than later.

4/19/2024 - JM_MadTown Likes this wine:

This is a savory Bourgueil that’s ready to drink. It has dark red fruit, forest floor, bell pepper, good minerality, earthiness, and a medium body. It is in a perfect place now to enjoy.

4/17/2024 - JM_MadTown Likes this wine:

This wine has a beautiful red color with an orange rim. It has lovely dark red fruits, bramble, herbs de Provence and some green olive. It has great length and a roundness to it that is pleasing. The tannins have been resolved, but it still keeps the rustic characteristics of a typical wine from Bandol.

4/14/2024 - JM_MadTown Likes this wine:

This wine is quite nice, especially for the closet out price I paid of $20. It is very complex, with honeyed pear and green apple and zippy acidity to balance that out, plus nice minerality.

4/14/2024 - JM_MadTown Likes this wine:

Nice spice box, cherries, raspberries and balanced acidity for this wine. Had it last evening and it was quite enjoyable. I do agree that the fruit is on the leaner side, but that is just an observation, not a compliant.

4/12/2024 - JM_MadTown wrote:

The wine has smoky black fruits, including black cherries and raspberries, plus it is full bodied and has good complexity. However, at 15.5% alcohol, it is a heady wine.

4/11/2024 - JM_MadTown wrote:

For $10 this was a nice quaffer. Good fruit, but a little bit rustic, as expected.

4/9/2024 - JM_MadTown Likes this wine:

There are nice orchard fruits, a little vanilla, and baking spices with a medium finish. It has a roundness on the palate that is pleasing. I do believe that this vintage should be consumed soon.

4/8/2024 - JM_MadTown Likes this wine:

This bottle has some citrus fruit, gooseberries, lemon grass, lemon zest, stony minerality, and good acidity. It has all the elements of my previous bottles of this vintage. However, it seems that the fruit has faded somewhat and the wine, at least for this bottle, has lost some of its vibrancy. It has been stored in a 55 degree cellar since release.

4/7/2024 - JM_MadTown wrote:

I had this at a pizza joint last evening and it went well with the pizza! This is a typically dry and somewhat tannic Dolcetto with the fruit in the background. Nevertheless, it has plumb, sorry cherry and blackberry notes. It has tart acidity and really requires some food to enjoy it at its fullest.

4/5/2024 - JM_MadTown Likes this wine:

Another delicious bottle of SP68! As with previous bottles, I enjoyed the light red fruits, lively acidity and savory characteristics of this wine. It is a light to medium bodied wine that is easy to enjoy. It is not for long term aging, however.

4/3/2024 - JM_MadTown Likes this wine:

This wine has notes of cassis, sweet red fruits, bitter chocolate and dried sage. It is so delicious!

3/31/2024 - JM_MadTown Likes this wine:

Similar notes as my last bottle of this wine. It is quite delicious and savory with a nice light red color with a lightly perfumed nose. It has soft red fruits, including raspberries and cherries, sour cherries, green tea, Asian spices, plus good minerality and acidity.

3/31/2024 - JM_MadTown Likes this wine:

I really liked this wine last evening. It came together quite well after it was open for an hour. Lots of red fruits, a little sour cherry at first that mellowed into more luscious raspberry and cherry fruit. It seems to have a number of years of life left. A very enjoyable Burgundy!

3/28/2024 - JM_MadTown Likes this wine:

Tropical fruits, very savory with great minerality and a little salinity. I find this wine to be very full bodied, intense with a lot of grip!

3/27/2024 - JM_MadTown Likes this wine:

Compared to my previous bottles in the last year, this one has a more muted nose. But as before, this one has nice cherry fruit that seems to be fading just a bit, plus red currents, spices, earthiness and a savory finish. Quite enjoyable, and probably has a few years to go with its drinking window.

3/25/2024 - JM_MadTown Likes this wine:

The wine has a garnet color and a somewhat expressive nose of blue violets. I like the dark red fruits, minerality and balanced acidity. It is savory with some spices and delicate on the palate, but very dry or perhaps some drying tannins remain that are more predominate than the red fruit. Nevertheless, a nice wine at its apogee.

3/23/2024 - JM_MadTown Likes this wine:

Another delicious bottle. No formal notes, but it had nice red fruits, balanced acidity and minerality.

3/20/2024 - JM_MadTown Likes this wine:

Drank with friends. No formal notes, but I remember it was enjoyable.

3/18/2024 - JM_MadTown Likes this wine:

Again, I enjoyed the dark red fruits, lively acidity and savory characteristics of this wine. Good complexity for its level and a medium finish.

3/18/2024 - JM_MadTown Likes this wine:

My last bottle of this vintage. Still quite good.

3/15/2024 - JM_MadTown Likes this wine:

This is an enjoyable Zinfandel with lots of black cherries and plums with firm acidity. It should have a couple more years to go on its primary drinking window.

3/13/2024 - JM_MadTown Likes this wine:

At almost 9 years of age, this is a great California Chardonnay. The nose has nice orchard fruits and the color is a light gold. It has lots of orchard fruits on the palate, great minerality and zippy acidity. This is not a so-called buttery CA Chardonnay and I like that about it. It seems like it has a lot of life left in it.

3/11/2024 - JM_MadTown Likes this wine:

This is my first bottle of Eyrie Pinot Noir and I was very interested in trying it. I was very pleasantly surprised by how delicious, silky and elegant it is.

What an expressive nose of pinot fruit. I like the crimson color of the wine too. It has lots of dark red fruits, including strawberries, black cherries, and a little cranberry. It is earthy, spicy and savory with silky tannins along with good acidity.

3/9/2024 - JM_MadTown Likes this wine:

Lots of blackberry and dark cherry fruit. The wine is very generous and more typical of Chinon in this vintage and not as rich as 2017, 2018 and 2019 (but that is not a complaint, just an observation). It is also very savory, earthy, with silky tannins (no new oak is used), smooth and delicious. I like these wines also for the lower alcohol levels: this one is at 12%. I am sure it will age nicely for the next ten years or so.

3/9/2024 - JM_MadTown Likes this wine:

I liked this bottle a lot more than my last one. I enjoyed the dark red fruits, lively acidity and savory characteristics of this wine. Good complexity for its level and a medium finish. Quite good!

3/6/2024 - JM_MadTown Likes this wine:

I decanted this wine a couple of hours ago, which I recommend both for aeration and leaving behind the sediment in the bottle.

The nose on this wine is giving me hints of dark red fruits, including plums. As you would expect, the color is a bright red with an orange rim.

I am really enjoying the dark red fruits, including plum and blackberrry. The wine is very savory with some garrique, chocolate, and spices. The tannins seem to be fully integrated, but still firm. Great concentration, good structure, nice acidity and minerality too. It is at the beginning of its drinking window.

3/4/2024 - JM_MadTown Likes this wine:

I think this is a great Beaujolais, and a bargain at that. Really nice dark red fruits, including blueberries and cherries. It is medium to full bodied and very ample, with a full mouthfeel and lively acidity.

3/2/2024 - JM_MadTown Likes this wine:

The wine has an orange rim, but nice dark red color overall. Lots of blueberries, licorice, blackberries, cassis, black olives and herbs de Provence.

I decanted the bottle an hour or so ago.

As I experienced with my previous bottles of this vintage, the tannins have softened and it is ready to enjoy, but they are still noticeable. It shows Bandol typicity as it will probably always show a rustic side.

Day two: I saved half of this bottle into a 1/2 bottle, stuck the cork in it and put it back in the cellar overnight. So this evening, this is not such a great wine. I am not sure what to think about this. Now there is a lack of fruit plus drying tannins on the palate.

2/28/2024 - JM_MadTown Likes this wine:

My last bottle of this vintage. It is quite enjoyable, with dark cherries, and dark chocolate. It is very complex, with tertiary notes of dried fruits. But I would recommend enjoy your bottles of this vintage sooner than later.

2/26/2024 - JM_MadTown Likes this wine:

Lots of citrus fruits, stone fruit as well, plus good acidity. It is holding up well, but I plan to enjoy the rest of my bottles of this vintage during this year.

2/24/2024 - JM_MadTown Likes this wine:

So this bottle is very good compared to the one I had in December, thankfully!

This wine has an inviting nose of blue violets, and the color is a beautiful red. It has nice dark red fruits, including cherries and raspberries, plus nice minerality. It is rich, savory and medium bodied, with silky tannins and a medium finish.

2/22/2024 - JM_MadTown Likes this wine:

I opened the bottle several hours ago to give it some time to open. Well, it is drinking quite nicely with lots of dark cherry fruit, silky tannins, good minerality, complexity and balanced acidity. There are also some baking and Christmas spices.

2/20/2024 - JM_MadTown Likes this wine:

I decanted this young wine about one hour ago and it was still at cellar temperature. It has a lovely dark red to purple color with some muted aromatics including blue violets and red currants.

It is full bodied with nice dark red fruits, fine tannins, a touch of oak, and it is very savory, rich and concentrated. The finish is long and you can tell the structure is there for some years in the cellar. While you can drink it now, it will certainly become more complex and more enjoyable after the tannins soften.

However, I will say that I was surprised by the 14.5% alcohol level, especially for a wine from burgundy.

2/19/2024 - JM_MadTown Does not like this wine:

I don’t find this wine to be very interesting at all. I bought it recently at TotalWine and popped it open a short while ago. It is not very expressive and the fruit is very muted. It seems to have a metallic taste to it.

2/18/2024 - JM_MadTown Likes this wine:

For $20, this is a good wine that is easy to drink. It has good citrus fruit, including grapefruit, and lychee nut, plus good minerality and a slightly honeyed texture. I agree that perhaps it could use a little more acidity, but overall, it seems balanced and has a nice medium finish.

2/17/2024 - JM_MadTown Likes this wine:

This is a very delicious Gigondas! Lots of dark, ripe, red fruits, garrique, minerality, and very savory. The wine is very well in balance and is not rustic like I find many wines from this appellation. A good QPR.